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Chang Wang was born in 1988. He received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Yanshan University, China, in 2011, 2014 and 2020, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. His current research interests include aerial manipulators, reconfigurable robots, parallel mechanisms and their controls.

Ran Jiao received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and electronic engineering from the Robotics Institute, Beihang University, Beijing, China, in July 2021. He was a visiting Ph.D. candidate with the Group of Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, from 2019 to 2020. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, from 2021 to 2023. He currently works as a Faculty Member with the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing. His current research includes physical human–robot interaction, compliance and safety control of rehabilitation robots and bilateral rehabilitation training mechanism.

Jianhua Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2008. He is currently a Professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. He has authored about 80 refereed journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include surgical robots and rehabilitation exoskeleton.